Sammanfattning

Studies of accumulation by dispossession in the Global South tend to focus on individual sectors, for example, large-scale agriculture or nature conservation. Yet smallholder farmers and pastoralists are affected by multiple processes of land alienation. Drawing on the case of Tanzania, we illustrate the analytical purchase of a comprehensive examination of dynamics of land alienation across multiple sectors. To begin with, processes of land alienation through investments in agriculture, mining, conservation, and tourism dovetail with a growing social differentiation and class formation. These dynamics generate unequal patterns of land deprivation and accumulation that evolve in a context of continued land dependency for the vast majority of the rural population. Consequently, land alienation engenders responses by individuals and communities seeking to maintain control over their means of production. These responses include migration, land tenure formalization, and land transactions, that propagate across multiple localities and scales, interlocking with and further reinforcing the effects of land alienation. Various localized processes of primitive accumulation contribute to a scramble for land in the aggregate, providing justifications for policies that further drive land alienation.

Nyckelord

accumulation by dispossession; agriculture; conservation; land grabbing; Tanzania

Publicerad i

Journal of Agrarian Change
2018, Volym: 18, nummer: 4, sidor: 806-830
Utgivare: WILEY

SLU författare

• Engström, Linda

  • Institutionen för stad och land, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

Globala målen

Stärka genomförandemedlen och återvitalisera det globala partnerskapet för hållbar utveckling


UKÄ forskningsämne

Nationalekonomi


Publikationens identifierare

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12271

Permanent länk till denna sida (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/96687